THE VISUAL TELLING OF STORIES

THE VISUAL TELLING OF STORIES

Welcome to Chris Mullen's website, The Visual Telling of Stories. You can go to the main gate or shuffle about in the Samplers till you get some hang of the place. It was started in 1996. Material is added every day. It is far bigger than you could ever imagine. I don't blame you for backing out, with a polite cough. I'll never know.

Photoseed

Étude, 1896 by Paul Bergon from Photoseed

Bringing to Light the Growth and Artistic Vision of 19th & 20th Century Photography

SLICEDSOUP

Extrusion Map-69, 2010, Douglas Prince
I've been fortunate to have some work from "Extrusion Maps" added to SLICEDSOUP, a curated collection of art discovered online:

http://www.slicedsoup.org/

David Prifti

© David Prifti, 2009, Hannah, Assabet

David Prifti, who died on November 21st, was a photographer and teacher who for the past 15 years embraced the earliest techniques of photography. Using the traditional wet plate collodion process, which was developed in the 1850’s, David made photographs of contemporary sitters and subjects that are tinged with a sweet and haunting sense of nostalgia.

Because the wet collodion process requires exposures from 30 seconds to 2 minutes time it provides powerful opportunities for a deep inspection and engagement. “My interest lies in the power of a photograph to describe my subject clearly and with power,” Prifti once wrote. “What begins with my interest in the physical appearance of the subject, develops into an evolving exploration of the sitter and myself.”